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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1h

where do i donate

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 2h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

can't do it, must sleep, congrats to the Mariners on presumably winning in the next 5 minutes

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

baseball players chew too much

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

please make it stop

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

this is delightful

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

does this man know where the strike zone is

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 12h

really hope the Tigers walk in the Mariners' winning run

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Ed @ed3d.net · 18h

accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.

I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 23h

to each their own, but I don't read any ambiguity in the above section. agency heads often issue guidance about longstanding law or policy as a refresher, which is why I agree the timing of this is notable given all the protests, but this isn't a new legal interpretation

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 23h

ah, that makes much more sense! gonna delete those posts

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1d

all respect to Marisa, I think the timing and tone of this memo is notable, but I wish the piece mentioned that the authority he's describing is clearly laid out by statute

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

b) OFFICERS AND AGENTS.-

(1) DESIGNATION.-

The Secretary may designate employees of the Department of Homeland Security, including employees transferred to the Department from the Office of the Federal Protective Service of the General Services Administration pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as officers and agents for duty in connection with the protection of property owned or occupied by the Federal Government and persons on the property, including duty in areas outside the proper to the extent necessary to protect the property and persons on the property.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1d

in case you were wondering, no, it is not normal for the NSC to designate where someone should be deported

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

S: we were notified that uganda was the country.
R: who?
S: so i was told from HLS council.
R: who is that?
S: spoke to matt ochoa . work with National sec Council at White House
Ochoa.
R: when did he contact you?
S: august 24

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1d

$20 on Blackman, but Wurman's right behind and Feldman is a dark horse

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

A law professor is probably writing an article right now explaining how Trump has the authority to fire the Nobel Committee.

much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1d

people keep posting this article and it contains zero reporting. it's literally just one columnist's speculation

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 1d

best part of working in an office is the complete lack of respect for a shared working space by all my coworkers

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 2d

but it does allow for half-star rating increments, which means more to me than it probably should

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 2d

I switched to Storygraph just to leave the Amazon ecosystem but it's honestly not any better

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 4d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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